Catholic College Fires Gay Priest After Letter Calls Him a 'Heretic'
Students are angry after Chestnut Hill College, a Roman Catholic college in Philadelphia, fired a professor because he's gay, although Father James St. George has never hidden that fact and was completely vetted before joining the college.
St. George believes it's because the college received a letter from James Pepper, a local lawyer with no ties to the college, branding him a "heretic".
Father St. George is part of the Old Catholic Church Of The Americas, a faction that broke away from the Vatican back in 1870. In his church, priests are allowed to marry and be gay.
A quick Google search when the college hired him would have revealed that, but the college said in a statement, "it was with great disappointment when we learned through St. George's public statements of his involvement in a gay relationship with another man for the past 15 years."
The college never spoke to Father St. George, he says, they sent a letter, and then refused to take his calls.
Said St. George: "I serve as a trauma chaplain, I help broken people. I run a parish, a small parish in Blue Bell, take care of people who have no hope. I teach kids how to become better adults."
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I agree with EO, Gays don't need the Catholic Church at all. And the Catholic church should clean up its own house or shut up. That's means getting rid of the liers and cheaters who do more harm to more people than anything. But come to think about it the rest of the religions are nuts to.
Posted by: Rob | Jul 24, 2011 8:37:37 AM